Furious parents say teachers told their young children that Father Christmas is not real during a school assembly.

Stephanie Boyden said the staff at Nicholas Chamberlain School in Coventry “ruined the magic of Christmas” for her 11-year-old daughter.

Her daughter no longer believes Father Christmas will bring her presents, Mrs Boyden said.

She claims her daughter said teachers told the pupils they “need to know the truth” about Santa Claus.

Mrs Boyden said the school should have left that spoiler to the parents.

“I couldn’t believe it - it has been my choice to keep my children believing. They have taken the magic of Christmas away from her,” she said.

“My daughter came and sat on my bed yesterday morning (Monday) and said: 'Santa isn’t real, is he?'. I said to her: 'Who told you that?’ and she said that the school did last week in assembly. I was shocked.

“She said it in front of my two youngest, and one of them said: ‘Yes, he is real’. I believe my daughter is telling the truth. Why would she lie about something like this?”

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The mum-of-six said: “I don’t know why they (the school) had to do it, unless the children had asked them questions. But they could have done it in a different way, rather than saying: ‘It is about time you knew the truth’.”

The furious mum, who is herself a former Nicholas Chamberlain School student, hit back at critics that said her Year 7 daughter should already know the truth, the Coventry Telegraph reported.

“Yes, she is in secondary school but she is 11 and I have always kept the magic going with all of my children as long as I could,” the Bedworth resident said.

“She is still young. It ruins the magic of Christmas,” she said.

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“I tried to call the school three times and then the head of Year 7 eventually phoned me back, she apologised for the way in which it came across, but I said that was not my only point. My daughter said that they ‘needed to know the truth,’ she (the teacher) said that wasn’t how it was and they were discussing St Nicholas.

“I said to her that, in future, if they feel they need to say something like that, then they should say it is in a different way.”

Her friends are now encouraging her to start up a #webelieve hashtag and get it trending in time for Christmas.